image from original Savaugeau etal (2013) paper.
http://elife.elifesciences.org/content/2/e01749
image from original Savaugeau etal (2013) paper.
http://elife.elifesciences.org/content/2/e01749
Then those guys that ‘discovered junk DNA’ should give back their Nobel Prizes......................
But...the science was settled.
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I can’t believe how much bs has been churned out over this bogus “junk DNA” canard.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
The thoroughly discredited idea of evolution keeps revealing itself to be more and more ridiculous. Yet, scientists and the media try mightily to cling to it!
There is no evidence for the “theory” and never has been. It’s just an idea Darwin came up with. But he was mentally ill and a very troubled person.
The concept of “Junk DNA” is a typical response of a certain class of arrogant “scientists”, namely, if we don’t understand something, then either 1.) It simply doesn’t exist (e.g., the response to meteorites - stones can’t fall from the sky); 2.) It’s not important or it means nothing (e.g., Junk DNA).
Fortunately, the world still produces genuinely skeptical and curious people, and to the skeptical and curious do we owe the continuous discoveries of the material truths and discoveries of our world that have benefited so much of mankind.
It is good to see scientists adjust thier theories to acomodate the findings of new research.
Only a few “scientific facts” are immutable and indiputable:
1 - Global Warming is taking place
2 - It is manmade
3 - It is killing the planet - maybe even the entire galaxy
4 - The only way to stop it is to make working Americans pay higher taxes
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“it was once believed that the regions in between the protein-coding genes of the genome were wastelands of alleged nonfunctional “junk DNA.” However, we now know that these previously misunderstood regions are teeming with functional activity—and a new study shows they are actually required for life.”
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This doesn’t surprise me at all. Nothing in Creation is “junk.”
(mosquitoes, black flies and earwigs aside, LOL! ;) )
Seriously, though—it takes quite a bit of hubris for a human being to state that something he or she doesn’t understand is merely “junk” and not worthy of attention.
we think we’re so smart when we just keep proving we’re stupid.
assuming some dna is junk b/c we don’t know what it does. it must be junk.
assuming certain organs and structures are junk/leftover vestigials b/c we don’t knmpow what they do. we assume it’s junk. like the appendix, coccyx.
maybe a true expert is one who learns stuff but doesn’t let what he knows cloud and bias his/her ability to keep an open mind and not make unsupported assumptions based almost entirely on their ‘learned’ reputations. saing ‘we don’t know yet’ what something does is a valid answer and doesn’t make you an idiot for not having a more definitive answer.
Our Creator does not waste life it all has a use even though we can not comprehend it.
No matter your thoughts on how matter was assembled (Creator, Nature, cosmic coincidence, etc), there’s not exactly a lot of wasted space or matter anywhere in the world, scientifically-speaking.
The “junk DNA” concept is 50 years old at this point. In the intervening time, we’ve learned more about how it works and discovered that some things we thought had no purpose actually do. That’s how science is supposed to work, and I’m sure that no one’s more excited about the new discoveries than the scientists who originally called it “junk”—except maybe people like ICR, who find advantage in pretending that there’s some monolithic scientific establishment dedicated to protecting the “junk DNA” concept.
Sounds like what science is supposed to do.